chaunt

American  

[chawnt, chahnt] / tʃɔnt, tʃɑnt /

noun

1. an obsolete variant of chant.

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chaunt British  

/ tʃɔːnt /

noun

1. a less common variant of chant

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Other Word Forms

• chaunter noun

Example Sentences

The whiles some one did chaunt this lovely lay; Ah! see, whoso fayre thing dost fain to see, In springing flower the image of thy day!

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

There was a sound of chains, then the chaunt arose in chorus which was become, through the irony of fate, so piteous a mockery: 'What rights the brave?

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

At intervals she sang: but what she sang was more like a low muttered chaunt, than a regular song: at least Bertram understood not a word of it, if words they were that escaped her.

From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. by De Quincey, Thomas

Here the narrative of the Deluge appears as an episode in the eleventh tablet, or eleventh chaunt of the great epic of the town of Uruk.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

For thou, to keep thy body to thy soul, Must swing a censer, wear a holy stole, And chaunt Te Deums with unbelief between.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles